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A new Dictyostelium prestalk cell sub-type.
Developmental biology - 15 Mar 2010
Yamada Yoko, Kay Robert R, Bloomfield Gareth, Ross Susan, Ivens Alasdair, Williams Jeffrey G
Abstract excerpt
The mature fruiting body of Dictyostelium consists of stalk and spore cells but its construction, and the migration of the preceding slug stage, requires a number of specialized sub-types of prestalk cell whose nature and function are not well understood. The prototypic prestalk-specific gene, ecmA, is inducible by the polyketide DIF-1 in a monolayer assay and requires the DimB and MybE transcription factors for...
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